Public Transport Council (Bus or Train Fare Evasion) Regulations 2016

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Current version
as at 26 Nov 2024

No. S 82

Public Transport Council Act

(CHAPTER 259B)

Public Transport Council
(Bus or Train Fare Evasion) Regulations 2016

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 28 of the Public Transport Council Act, the Public Transport Council, with the approval of the Minister for Transport, makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations are the Public Transport Council (Bus or Train Fare Evasion) Regulations 2016 and come into operation on 29 February 2016.

Definitions

2. In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires —

“issuing officer”, for a penalty fee notice, means the public transport official giving an individual the penalty fee notice;

“penalty fee notice” means a notice under section 53(1) of the Act containing an offer of an opportunity to pay a penalty fee;

[S 729/2024 wef 31/12/2021]

“Symphony for ePayment system” or “SeP system” means the central servers, workstations and networks which are collectively capable of —

(a)	collecting, transferring, processing and storing information;
(b)	settling financial transactions; and
(c)	generating reports,

relating to smartcard tickets and other prescribed devices.

Prescribed penalty fee

3. For the purposes of section 53(1) of the Act, the amount prescribed for a penalty fee is $50.

[S 729/2024 wef 31/12/2021]

Appeal procedure

4.—(1) For the purpose of section 53(3) of the Act, the period prescribed to appeal against a penalty fee notice is 14 days after that notice is given by the issuing officer.

[S 729/2024 wef 31/12/2021]

(2) Every appeal under section 53(3) of the Act must —

(a)	be made electronically in the applicable form provided at the Council’s website at https://go.gov.sg/penalty-fee-services; or [S 729/2024 wef 01/10/2024]
(b)	be in writing, addressed to the Penalty Fee Section of the Council and sent to the office address of the Council. [S 729/2024 wef 01/10/2024]

[S 729/2024 wef 31/12/2021]

Instance of fare evasion

5. For the purposes of section 54(4)(c) of the Act, an individual evades payment of a bus fare or train fare if the individual is travelling or attempting to travel or has travelled for free on a bus or train on an invalid ticket.

[S 729/2024 wef 31/12/2021]

Prescribed devices and prescribed processes

6.—(1) For the purposes of section 55 of the Act, the prescribed devices and prescribed processes are set out in Parts 1 and 2 of the Schedule, respectively.

[S 729/2024 wef 31/12/2021]

(2) For the purposes of a process referred to in Part 2 of the Schedule, the Symphony for ePayment system is a prescribed computer system.

Revocation

7. The Public Transport Council (Penalty Fees) Regulations 2008 (G.N. No. S 303/2008) are revoked.

Made on 26 February 2016.

RICHARD MAGNUS

Chairman,
Public Transport Council,
Singapore.

[PTC 84-01; AG/LEGIS/SL/259B/2015/6 Vol. 2]

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